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Date:      Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:29:22 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Cc:        Chris Hedley <cbh-freebsd-current@groups.chrishedley.com>
Subject:   Re: GEOM: gpt partitions on a gmirror array possible?
Message-ID:  <20041130202922.GC1335@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20041130201522.GA92745@ns1.xcllnt.net>
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On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 12:15:22PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 03:37:52PM +0000, Chris Hedley wrote:
> > >
> > >I guess a change like geom_mbr.c:1.57 is in order, or a more to-the-
> > >point test for rejecting GPT on MBR or GPT on GPT.
> >=20
> > Any suggestions before I start butchering the file in question?
>=20
> Removal of the following should do it without causing problems:
>=20
>                 if (gp->rank !=3D 2 && insist =3D=3D 0)
>                         break;
>=20
> In fact, this is the fix I'm considering. The strength of GEOM is
> that you can create arbitrary layering and nesting and imposing
> limitations seems counter productive. There may be an advantage to
> allow GPT on MBR or GPT on GPT even if it's disallowed under EFI.
> We already allow the use of GPT outside the context of EFI...

I think this would be a very good idea.  It's quite conceivable that we
could end up wanting to put a GPT inside a sunlabel or an Apple partition
table.

-- Brooks

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